in this, our first installment of in search of, we google the word “repository” and follow the trail, sifting the results for your (our) pleasure. why repository? well, it is in keeping with the spirit of in search of which is to say, when randomly looking for interesting stuff, where would you look first but a repository? a compendium perhaps, but lets do one thing at a time. searching… searching…

1 human descent. an exercise in genetic photoshopery, some successful, some, gone horribly, horribly wrong. (see the gallery for the full brunt)

2 phone bin. aptly enough a repository for photos taken with phone cams, uploaded willy nilly by whomever. a sort of wordless zeitgeist monitor, according to which, we, as modern folk, are interested mainly in 3 things, exhibitionism, chochkies, and cars.

3 american newspaper repository. nicholson baker, of good book and nonist zeitgeist portrait fame (ya heard?), founded this. a dust bin of history in the literal sense. old newspapers in all their old, newsy glory. check the gallery for extra illustrative goodness.

4 stupid videos. just exactly what it says really. after watching a kitten nodding off i saw something that actually made me laugh. i’ll tell you what if you ask.

5 algorithms here you go oh geekus maximus! a gazillion framillion algorithms indexed graphically. yee ha. actually it’s not quite a gazillion framillion, it just felt like it.

6 open cultures. web site for some community open source artsy happening or some such. came across some fairly interesting things in the projects, and ideas sections.

7 manufacturing minutia, or how every day things are made. stanford university filling in the gaps of your capitalist swine data banks. flash movies explaining how everything from airplanes to jelly beans are made. strangely no mention of hot dogs…

8 book review repository. got an obtuse old book you love and want to keep all to yourself? no need to go beating irony obsessed hipsters with a stick to drive them away, post a rotten review here and head them off at the pass.

9 run me. at the crossroads of pointless code and useless imagery comes, what else? software art. lots of java doodads and coding knick knacks here. actually some pretty interesting automata type stuff, if your into that kind of thing… dork.

10 bomb project. an astoundingly thorough repository for all things nuclear bomb. we young whippersnappers, though often told how scared we should be, came just a bit late to actually wet our pants over it. check this site out, think of dick cheney’s scowling mug, and get wettin’.

well there you go. now you must wait with baited breath till our next fun filled installment….